Tag: Sino-Indian relations

• India, the NSG and China: Time to Move Away from the Blame Game

  China has shown following the PCA ruling that the way to come back from a diplomatic loss is more diplomacy – political, economic and military – not less. India has much to learn.

• Missing Opportunities: India and OBOR

  By refusing to engage with the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, India’s policymakers are letting go of opportunities to shape and influence events in its two largest neighbours

• India-Taiwan Relations: Promise Unfulfilled

  India-Taiwan relations lack both ambition and creativity and suffer from not a little pusillanimity.

• Indian States and Foreign Policy: Lessons from Chinese Provinces

  

  Originally published as Jabin T. Jacob, ‘China’s Provinces and Foreign Policy: Lessons and Implications for India and its States’ in Subir Bhaumik (ed.), Agartala Doctrine: A Proactive Northeast in India Foreign Policy (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. 253-70. Extracts Even without their rising world profiles as a starting point, it has long been a…

• Boxing It In: China’s Approach to India

  China appears to believe that India’s unfriendliness and lack of capacity mean that it has to and can be tied down to South Asia

• Interview: China Balances Assertiveness and Diplomacy

  China walks a fine line balancing its assertiveness in the South China Sea with promoting economic cooperation through its ‘new Silk Roads’ initiative

• India’s Response to China’s ‘one belt, one road’ Initiative

  This article looks at India’s response to China’s OBOR and the weaknesses of that response through two specific cases of Pakistan and the Indian Ocean.

• Expectations from the Modi Visit to China

  It makes sense for two countries the size and complexity of India and China for their cities and provinces to develop their own independent economic linkages with each other.

• Interpreting Prime Minister Modi’s China Approach

  Originally published as ‘Interpreting Modispeak on China’, The Hindu (Chennai), 14 May 2015. As Indian Prime Ministers and political leaders go, Narendra Modi is unique in possessing some significant experience of that country before attaining office. In fact, despite – or perhaps, because of – the differences in world views and how he has gone about understanding…